Milking it!

[RamesesII]

As you may know i am sick at the moment, and i was thinking do you milk the most out of it and get people to do stuff for you while you are sick or do you just sweat it out and bare it and continue doing your daily chores and go to work.

I asked my wife to make some self saucing chocolate puddings tonight but that was only because she bought some custard and i had nothing to have it with so i cant really count that as milking it, but in general i usually just plod along and continue with life unless of course i am completely bed ridden but usually i am not. While i was sick i went and built a fence today which i probably shouldn't have it took what was left of my energy out. Being a man i usually don't like to ask people to do stuff for me while i am sick but it is different now with a wife and three children.
I used to go to work whether i was sick or not but now with kids i find it is better to stay home and get over it as quick as possible instead of torturing myself at work so now i just stay home and very rarely ask my wife to do stuff for me.

[Kilala]

Mmm as a general rule I don't milk it when I'm ill. I hate it when my body is failing on me but my spirit is like rearing to go (XD). So I try to go on as normal pushing myself - sadly it doesn't always end well.
Depending on the circumstances, I think milking can be acceptable... but not to ridiculous levels. Okay admittedly when really ill I like company (whats that saying,,, misery loves company or something? xD), and will beg for it. But most of the time I'm too embarrassed to bother anyone.
I do know some people who milk illness ALOT. And well.. when you make it obvious... it's irritating. But a little extra TLC doesn't hurt anyone <3

[DragonHeart]

It worked when I was little (like, 7) but alas, there is no milking to be done here. Besides, I am stubborn, perhaps too much sometimes. I've gone to work with a fever before and I don't usually call out unless I am literally too sick to get out of bed. On days when I do go to work sick I try to sneak out a bit early if possible so I can get that bit of extra rest. I've been sent home maybe once or twice. I'm the suffer in silence type so I pretty much have to be forced to leave despite how much I hate working at my job heh.

I kind of wish I wasn't like this though. A lot of the part timers call out "sick" all the time. Usually on the really nice sunny beach days. I hate it when they do that, really wish we had a more stringent policy on that sort of thing.

~DragonHeart~

[Taco-Calamitous]

I kind of wish I wasn't like this though. A lot of the part timers call out "sick" all the time. Usually on the really nice sunny beach days. I hate it when they do that, really wish we had a more stringent policy on that sort of thing.

Kill them.

I will call in sick if I am feeling like absolute crap, but I try not to call in on multiple days, even if I am still sick the next day. So I end up going to work feeling like shit a lot of the time. I also go to work hung over on occasion, but that really doesn't count... good thing I'm generally on swing shift. Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom

[Unknown Entity]

I don't like milking it. I'm someone who gets really guilty if someone does something for me. Yeah, the guild wears off, but it's still there for a while. If I'm really badly ill to the point I can barely get out of bed, then fair enough - I'll ask someone to get me a drink, but only if I'm totally unable to do it myself.

When other people are ill however, I'm the first person they turn to... >>;

[SOLDIER #819]

I don't normally milk when sick. It's really the opposite actually. Medication, food, and company be damned. When I'm sick I want to be left alone in bed. I'm usually too exhausted and spaced out to even give people the time of day. When I do leave my bed it's to go to the comp to keep myself from being bored (I guess that habit doesn't change. ). If I do ask for something, it's for water that isn't within 200 paces.

But lately I've been getting sick right at the start of every semester, at the beginning of fall or in the middle of winter. Someone usually gives it to me then. I usually have to force myself to go to class, trying to keep myself conscious and my nose from leaking everywhere. Asking for anything would just hurt my throat, so yeah.

[Volendral]

I can't stand milking it when I'm sick. Heck, when I worked as a TSR (Telephone service representative) I still went to work when I was almost completely hoarse. Heck, I still find myself going out of my way to help other people. Though, once when I worked at a department store, the forced me to go home because I kept on almost falling down.

[Sean]

Depends on the severity of my illness, but those who know me in a professional manner know that if I had to call in sick or miss something because I was sick, then I'm pretty ill.

I miss classes a lot when I'm feeling under the weather because I can't focus, but I never miss work because I'm sick, unless it's something that's causing me to vomit repeatedly.

I don't usually milk it TOO much, but when I'm sick and at work, I do have a tendency to milk it a bit, mostly just to get me out of work a bit earlier. I don't milk it with friends or significant others, though.

[OceanEyes28]

I'm lactose intolerant.

Oh wait.


If I'm sick, I am really reluctant to let people get near me to help me. If they bring me something, cool. I'll take it and then sit across the room or something. I don't want to get someone else sick, and I don't really feel comfortable with people doing everything for me.

But I will go to the classes I can go to. This winter, I got the flu while I was in rehearsal for a show. My director wouldn't let me go to rehearsals because he didn't want other cast members getting sick and he wanted me to get rest. I missed over a week, but by then, at least my fever was gone. Finally. I made it to most of my classes. I skipped my 8AM once and when I was getting ready for a history class, I started puking. So I didn't go. But the rest of them, I was there. I drove myself to Walgreens to get my own meds, I did all my work, and I cooked for myself. The rest of the time, I slept.

So... no, not really. I really am lactose intolerant, though.

[Govinda]

It depends. I've never been too sick to work. I've been too hungover, or outside has been too sunny, for work; but it's never my body's fault. Given that, I've had three days off since I started in September. This was grounds for 'Post-Three Strikes Counselling', which was a giant guilt trip doled out by the boss, and at the end I had to thank her for letting me stay. Also, my boss, for this criminal three days (all, I might add, months apart) has had me on probation since December, and has recently upgraded it so that I will be released from probation by mid-October. I am hightailing the **** out of there in mid-August, and I am absolutely not telling that whore until rules mean that I have to. Down to the ****ing minute.

Anyway. I don't milk at work. I'm there to do a job, get paid, and join in the banter that gets everyone through the days. I stay away from friends when sick, unless they call round, which I'll complain about but will secretly love. The only one I will milk is my boyfriend. He knows when I'm doing it, but lets me away with it because I am far more suppliant and docile when sick, and I think he kind of likes the 'weakened girlfriend' state.

[Fate]

I don't anymore, but back when I did, it was certainly fun! And my mom actually gave me money when i was sick! I think it was to help me get better fast.

But I don't wanna bother anybody now. And like Ally said, I don't wanna get anybody else sick when there's already a sick member in the family. It's twice as hard having two sick members than just one. But the severity of my sickness is never that sever anymore. It's just a common cold every now and then. I still have to go to school, and I get over it in a couple of weeks. There's also cold medicine to help if I need it.

[Pete]

Never have, never will.

I've been sent home from jobs before because I was deemed too sick. Apparently I have a great work ethic, and sometimes that's a bad thing, especially when I had food poisoning and was vomiting in a trash can outside.

As for hangovers, I've shown up to work all sorts of hungover and even many a time still piss-ass drunk from the night before. My bosses wouldn't complain because I wouldn't and I would still get everything done that they had requested.

I also don't really have a lot of sympathy for people who call out sick for every little thing. Granted, I'll request a day off for after the Super Bowl and for after any major drinking days, and I'd get them because of how I am.


As for with my family and friends, I absolutely cannot bitch about anything at all, to anyone. A certain member of my family has been long suffering from complications from diabetes, and had some pretty hardcore shit happen to them. After seeing the pain and suffering, it really puts things into perspective, so I'll man up and just push through the illness or ailment